The build-up to the 2024 Paris Olympics has seen new establishments cropping up all over the city, for better or for worse. Amid this flood of proposals, here's our selection of 10 hotels to discover – for a long trip or an overnight stay; to meet for lunch or for a cocktail party – across a very wide price range.
The Seine is just down the road, and its two islands – Ile Saint-Louis and Ile de la Cité – are just a five- and ten-minute walk away respectively. Put simply, Hôtel Pilgrim is ideally located. First opened in November 2023, this four-star establishment, with its elegant black and grey façade, boasts 53 rooms and suites (ranging from 13 to 44 square meters) over six floors. The icing on this very attractive cake is a rooftop terrace on the seventh floor – which will only become accessible from spring onwards – with a host of spectacular views, featuring monuments such as Notre-Dame, the Eiffel Tower and the Sacré-Coeur. Housed in a former garage on the Rue de Poissy, between the Maubert-Mutualité and Cardinal-Lemoine stations on metro line 10, opposite the 13th-century Collège des Bernardins building, the hotel is a distillation of the 1970s, revisited in 2023: Orange and concrete-gray walls; mostly vintage furnishings; blue, red, mustard-yellow and green in the rooms, yet without overdoing it. And, while we have to wait a little before we can enjoy the rooftop, another option is just as attractive: A huge patio overlooking magnificent buildings, all of them in typical Parisian style, of course!
Hôtel Pilgrim 11 Rue de Poissy, Paris 5th Arrondissement. Double rooms available from €220.
No GPS is needed to find this hotel: Just get out at the Porte-de-Clichy metro station (lines 13, 14 or RER C). Simply glance around the square that stretches out in front of the Paris courthouse, and there it is, standing proudly like the prow of a boat – it is seven storeys high, after all. The neighborhood is a busy one – like a gateway to Paris – but from behind the large bay windows of Voco, whether you're sitting at the bar sipping a mocktail like the Passion Exotique (passion, mint and pomegranate, €10); seated in the restaurant enjoying a mac'n'cheese with baby spinach (€18); or relaxing on one of the sofas in the ground-floor lounges; the atmosphere is quite different. The lighting is soft and the decor smoothly blends wood with cane and marble. The same atmosphere can be found in the rooms (ranging from 18 to 38 square meters) and this four-star establishment – which first opened in June 2023 – boasts no fewer than 264 of them. Yet here too, you won't need a GPS to find your way around.
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